Gengoroh Tagame (1964 – ) is a gay cartoonist, erotic artist and a leader of Japanese gay art. He completed a graphic design course at Tama art university. After experience as an art director and a graphic designer, he started a serialization of gay manga and a novel in the magazine Sabu. He is a gay art specialist who has announced himself to be gay, something that’s quite rare in Japan. In recent years, he has energetically engaged in collecting resources and depicting the history of Japanese gay erotic art that has emerged since the end of the 1950s. His artworks have a high reputation in Japan and abroad. Foreign language versions of his works have also been published by French publishers.